יָאַשׁ yâʼash

Hebrew · Strong's H2976 · pronounced yaw-ash' · used 6 times in 6 verses

Meaning

to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond

In the King James Version: (cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.

Derivation: a primitive root;

1 Samuel 27:1 David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
Job 6:26 Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
Ecclesiastes 2:20 So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.
Isaiah 57:10 You are wearied by your many journeys, but you did not say, “There is no hope!” You found renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak.
Jeremiah 2:25 You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
Jeremiah 18:12 But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”